Archive for December, 2009

31
Dec

1 Day 2 10: Wayne Wrote His Plan!

Happy New Year’s Eve!

Last night, we did a LIVE life planning session with Wayne Howard @ DFC. And let me tell you, it was so much FUN! Wayne was the perfect guy for this experiment… everyone appreciated Wayne’s willingness to spill his life out in front of a live audience like that! He held nothing back… and when the night was over, Wayne had a very good start to his NEW LIFE PLAN!

I bet Wayne is bouncing out of bed this morning @ 5:15am just like he’s planning to do for the next 365 days… ALIVE AWAKE AND FULL OF ENERGY! I bet he’ll love and enjoy that NEW early morning spiritual routine so much he may even start crying at times!

By the time Wayne leaves for the Smoothy King today, he’ll be TINGLING ALL OVER WITH THE MAGICAL POWERS OF HIS NEW LIFE PLAN… watch out world, here comes the NEW WAYNE! He knows who he is and he knows why he is here!

Habakkuk 2:2 Then the LORD answered me and said: ” Write the vision and MAKE IT PLAIN (write it down!) on tablets, that he may RUN who READS it.”

Last night, I climbed up into the watchtower with Wayne and we asked the difficult questions… and we searched and searched for the breakthrough answers! Wayne is writing down the entire VISION, his NEW LIFE PLAN! 2010 will be a year of BALANCE and GREAT MOMENTUM, because Wayne has a plan for the all NINE EQUITIES of his LIFE!

  1. Spiritual (relationship w/ God)
  2. Physical (your body)
  3. Family (your inner circle)
  4. Financial (your money plan)
  5. Career & Calling (career-your job/calling-your divine purpose)
  6. Contribution (giving your time, talents, and resources)
  7. Character (the real you)
  8. Education (new information and mentorship)
  9. Experiences (exposure: visiting new places/trying new things)

This year, everything is going to be DIFFERENT for Wayne Howard and his beautiful family: Doresa, Jazmin, and Jo’-el! They’re going to RUN LIKE THE WIND WITH WAYNE’S NEW LIFE VISION! Doresa is writing her NEW LIFE PLAN, and together: Wayne and Doresa will help the kids write a simpler version of the plan… so their entire family will living and thriving on PURPOSE!

God seems to throw himself on the side of the man who knows exactly what he wants. -Napoleon Hill

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My New Years Eve Prayer!

“I now pray for the Howard family, and for every family and individual taking the time to write a new life plan! It’s not easy, the process takes about 4 hours from beginning to end… it’s very painful, having to face the reality of their great need for change… it’s exhausting for beaten down people to DREAM WITHOUT LIMITS, especially for those who have been trapped in a mode of low expectations for so long.

But today, I am asking you Father, to BLESS MY FRIENDS WITH VISIONS! Help them dedicate four hours to the best year of their lives! I pray that as these good people write the plan, and as they read the plan, and run with the plan… that the entire universe would start conspiring in their favor! As they reach for the prize, may the prize reach back to them! I ask for great doors to open for each of my blog friends… that 2010 will be the greatest year of their entire lives!

According to the words of Isaiah’s prophecy in Isaiah 54:2-3… I pray they will ENLARGE the place of THEIR tents, and let them STRETCH out the curtains of THEIR dwellings; I pray THEY do not spare; that THEY lengthen their cords, and strengthen THEIR stakes. For this is the year for EACH OF THEM to break out to the right and to the left, and for THEIR descendants to inherit the nations, and make the desolate cities inhabited… in Jesus name I pray, amen!”

Here’s a deeply spiritual spontaneous worship song from Kim Walker… it’ll lift you into a place of SEEING and greatly enhance your planning session! Enjoy!

Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

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30
Dec

2 Days 2 10: Get Your Goals Out of Your Head!

Announcement: We’re working on the blog today… certain functions may be disabled for a few hours. Wish us well! (wink)

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Happy Wednesday!

Tonight @ Destiny Family Center: I’m going to choose a volunteer out of the crowd… and help this lucky person WRITE A TRIUMPHANT 2010 NEW LIFE PLAN!

Every meeting @ DFC is broadcasted LIVE! All Wednesday night meetings run from 7:00-8:30PM EST: tonight’s life management coaching segment should begin at 7:20pm after  a short worship set, welcome and announcements, and an opportunity for year end contributions!

Click the thumbs up image anytime during the broadcast to CONNECT! Hope to see you there!

Tonight’s LIVE Life Management Coaching Schedule:

  1. I’m gonna help our volunteer write a lively 2010 New Life Plan!
  2. Then we’re going to create a 2010 calendar for the New Life Plan… annual, weekly, and daily schedules!
  3. Then we’re going to create a list of positive affirmations around a few of the biggest goals!
  4. Then we’re going to write 5 benefits of following this plan and 5 consequences of failing to follow this plan!

If you’re joining us online, bring the following documents to the meeting. We will have forms available on site!

Habakkuk 2:2 Then the LORD answered me and said: “ Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it.

I love the following video from Annie Sorensen… she explains the importance of GETTING YOUR GOALS OUT OF YOUR HEAD and into a written plan! Annie writes a great blog… check out her work!

Ok, so do what you must to join us tonight! Who knows? This could be the year you finally get your greatest goals written into an achievable life management plan! Have a great day… see you tonight!!

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Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

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29
Dec

3 Days 2 10: 4 Motivational Videos 2 A Better Life Plan!

Happy Tuesday!

Just three days to a NEW YEAR everyone! I’m going to spend this morning chatting about yesterdays blog: 4 Days 2 10: Write a New Life Plan! Why? Because I know how much resistance we all have to WRITING NEW LIFE PLANS… and I’d LOVE to see a pile of you guys do this for the very first time!

So print yesterdays 9 Equities Life Management System, block out 1-2 hours (30 minutes is a good start), and start DREAMING!

Yes, I know how difficult of a time you’ve had these past few years! We’ve all been challenged! We’ve all suffered abuse and neglect and betrayal! We’ve all shed tears! We’ve all died a thousand deaths or more! We’ve all had those moments when we wanted to stay down, shrink back, walk out, retire with our honors, quit with an attitude… we’ve been more than tempted to get out of the race and give up on our dreams! But we HAVE NOT!

But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him.” But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved!Hebrews 10:38-39

This CAN be the year!

Here are 4 motivational videos to inspire your creativity!

Inspired? Now write the plan and post the highlights!

I hope these Life Management Blogs add tremendous value to your amazing lives! I’m really praying for you all: to write a new life plan BEFORE FRIDAY! One that bounces you out of bed each day of 2010, with high energy and enthusiasm, with clear direction and knowledge of progress! That this will be a year of triumphant advancement for all my friends! God bless you today!

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Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

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28
Dec

4 Days 2 10: Write a New Life Plan!

Happy Monday!

Yesterdays church service @ Destiny Family Center was BEAUTIFUL! Almost can’t believe how the momentum continues to build! Wow, thank you God for giving us this grace! We can feel how you are opening GREAT DOORS to us right now. What a blessing it is!

In case you haven’t noticed… NEXT YEAR begins THIS FRIDAY!

That means we have 4 more days of this old 2009… and then 365 days of LIMITLESS POSSIBILITIES!

For todays blog, I am reposting my 9 Equities Life Management System. This will give everyone FOUR WHOLE DAYS for drafting a NEW LIFE PLAN!

Announcement: I’m teaching about Life Management THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT @ Destiny Family Center. Todays blog will give you a great head start!

Come on people, you know you need to, WRITE A NEW LIFE PLAN! It seems that most people have misplaced their BIG DREAMS over this past year as they’ve plummeted down into a mode of SURVIVAL. And the pity party ends right now… are you with me!? Shout YES! lol

A few thoughts to consider when you, WRITE THE NEW LIFE PLAN!

  • Dream without limits!
  • Think WAY outside the box!
  • Believe that anything is possible!
  • Look beyond yourself!
  • Aim to make a difference!
  • Be brutally honesty about the changes you’ll need to make!
  • Stop being intimidated with obstacles!
  • Deem this the year of facing your Goliath’s… and defeating them!
  • Stop procrastinating!
  • Actually write the plan!

Ok… let the FUN begin!!!

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The 2010-Nine Equities Life Management System

If you’re bored with life — you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things — you don’t have enough goalsLou Holtz

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going. Ralph Waldo Emereson

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. Booker T. Washington

I don’t care how much powerbrilliance or energy you have, if you don’t harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you’re never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants. Zig Ziglar

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never scoreBill Copeland

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you do this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire. Napoleon Hill

I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. Philippians 3:12-14

The 2010- Nine Equities of Life:

  1. Spiritual (relationship w/ God)
  2. Physical (your body)
  3. Family (your inner circle)
  4. Financial (your money plan)
  5. Career & Calling (career-your job/calling-your divine purpose)
  6. Contribution (giving your time, talents, and resources)
  7. Character (the real you)
  8. Education (new information and mentorship)
  9. Experiences (exposure: visiting new places/trying new things)

Complete the following for each of your nine equities:

  • What about __________________ am I dissatisfied with? (Be honest with yourself… find some pain)
  • If life were perfect… How would life be in the area of _______________________?  (Think real big!)
  • Find mentors for as many of these life equities as possible. Recruit their assistance ASAP. (This creates accountability)
  • Write down 3 or 4 specific goals for each of your nine life equities.
  • Create specific deadlines and a specific plan of action.
  • Post your 2010 Life Management Plan to this blog… so we can cheer you on!

Put your dreams to paper

Complete your nine equities assignment in the space provided below. Be honest and aim high!

1. Spiritual

A. ___________________________________________________________________________

B. ___________________________________________________________________________

C. ___________________________________________________________________________

D. ___________________________________________________________________________

2. Physical

A. ___________________________________________________________________________

B. ___________________________________________________________________________

C. ___________________________________________________________________________

D. ___________________________________________________________________________

3. Family

A. ___________________________________________________________________________

B. ___________________________________________________________________________

C. ___________________________________________________________________________

D. ___________________________________________________________________________

4. Financial

A. ___________________________________________________________________________

B. ___________________________________________________________________________

C. ___________________________________________________________________________

D. ___________________________________________________________________________

5. Career & Calling

A. ___________________________________________________________________________

B. ___________________________________________________________________________

C. ___________________________________________________________________________

D. ___________________________________________________________________________

6. Contribution

A. ___________________________________________________________________________

B. ___________________________________________________________________________

C. ___________________________________________________________________________

D. ___________________________________________________________________________

7. Character

A. ___________________________________________________________________________

B. ___________________________________________________________________________

C. ___________________________________________________________________________

D. ___________________________________________________________________________

8. Education

A. ___________________________________________________________________________

B. ___________________________________________________________________________

C. ___________________________________________________________________________

D. ___________________________________________________________________________

9. Experiences

A. ___________________________________________________________________________

B. ___________________________________________________________________________

C. ___________________________________________________________________________

D. ___________________________________________________________________________

Have Fun… Take Initiative… Do It Now!

Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

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27
Dec

Great Faith & A Million Miracles!

Happy Sunday!

Did I mention how excited I am about FINALLY getting to have a church service this morning?! We’ve had winter weather here on the East Coast for the past THREE weeks… its kept so many people from getting to our services.

Last Sunday, we were forced to cancel a service for the first time in several years! Even on Wednesday nights, we’ve had Christmas Caroling and the Annual Church Christmas Party for two weeks in a row… and no worship or preaching.

I hope that absence made the HEARTS GROW FOND… and even though so many people are still gone for the holidays, MANY will gather… and EVERYONE that gathers, will come with great expectations!

I opened my Bible this morning, to Joshua 3:10 and it read…

“Today you will know that the living God is among you. He will surely drive out the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites ahead of you.”

What an amazing scripture to fumble onto! TODAY you will KNOW that the LIVING GOD is AMONG YOU!

Sadly, in America these days, fewer and fewer churches and Christians KNOW that the LIVING GOD is AMONG them. While we push to HAVE EVERYTHING this physical world has to offer, we’re far too easily satisfied when it comes to HAVING ANY part of our spiritual heritage.

Maybe the hang up is noticed in our pursuit, or in our LACK of pursuit. And maybe this is the YEAR to ACT ON OUR FAITH… maybe, this is the year for ADVANCING INTO ENEMY TERRITORY… for demonstrating great resolve… and moving into biblical promises with GREAT FAITH and a MILLION MIRACLES!

I feel like a SPEECH is stirring up in my heart today… almost as if I’ve gone back in time and I am JOSHUA standing before the nation of Israel just as they were beginning to TAKE POSSESSION OF THEIR PROMISED LAND!

I better save this for church! Have a super Sunday everyone! I love you and I JUST prayed a bunch of NICE things over you… so feel the difference and SHARE the difference ALL DAY LONG!

Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

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26
Dec

Story of The Vanishing iTunes Gift Card!

Merry Christmas Day After!

Make sure you guys read yesterdays Christmas blog: Jesus Came 2 My House… it was very spiritual, very powerful… especially if you get to read it when you’re all alone and when you can spend some time praying afterwards. Really make some time today to prepare yourself for tomorrows church service at Destiny Family Center (or wherever you may be attending). I’ve still have that revival feeling…

I can’t describe to you how many tickling butterflies I have in my spiritual gut right now–about tomorrows service AND THE ENTIRE NEXT YEAR!

Yesterday, we Balsamo’s had the very best Christmas of our lives. We began by reading Luke 1 & 2 and praying together… and what a blessing that was! Our kids were so GRACIOUS and LOVING on the humblest Christmas morning they’ve known. Wow, they understand the real meaning of the season as well as it can be understood!

Emily was more beautiful than ever, her love for me was the greatest gift any man could ever wish for. We had such a great Christmas Eve with my family and then a great Christmas Day with hers.

Emily’s dad spent Christmas Eve in the hospital, and then miraculously made it home for the Christmas festivities… with a GREAT SMILE and his selfless LOVE for the family!

We cherished Merle so much more this year, in light of his unimaginable recent health challenges. Merle’s RELENTLESS FAITH witnesses to us all: that God can still move mountains! Thank God for the gift of another Christmas with one of the greatest men alive today! Every time I’m with Merle, I CATCH SOMETHING that makes me a far better person!

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Story of the Vanishing iTunes Gift Card

As always, Emily’s brothers had us laughing to tears… this year it was all about little Timothy Wall’s MISPLACED itunes gift card! Apparently, while Emily was relocating Timothy’s gift pile, one of his gift cards mysteriously VANISHED into thin air!

After TWO hours of searching and sassing, and barking and growling, and pinching and biting and pulling hair, and laughing hysterically, and TEARING THAT HOUSE APART… the itunes card MYSTERIOUSLY reappeared on the upstairs computer desk.

We may never get to the bottom of that story… and it doesn’t really matter, because the FUN WAS HAD! Poor little Emily was a pretty stressed about all the BLAME she had to TOLERATE and all the TRASH she had to sift through trying to find the missing gift card… but in the end Emily’s honor was RESTORED, I was THRILLED to be out of the WALL FAMILY HOT SEAT for ONE Christmas… and we all lived happily ever after! lol

How was your Christmas Day?

I would love to hear about your Christmas Day routines, special gifts (given and received), spiritual epiphanies, funny stories… and anything else from yesterday you’d care to share with the rest of the world!

I wish you a day of great peace and continued Christmas Cheer! I love you all!

Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

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25
Dec

Merry Christmas: Jesus Came to my House!

Merry Christmas!

It’s still early, my family is sleeping. It’s so quiet this morning. I just read the Christmas story from Luke 1 & 2, watched a 10 minute YouTube video clip from The Nativity Story, and I prayed for Immanuel (God is with us) to be with us-and with you, more this Christmas than any one before it. Now I’m sitting here not knowing what more to say. My family room has been hallowed with the awesomeness of this high holy day!

Last night, Emily and I watched about 30 minutes of the live Christmas Eve. Catholic Mass from the Vatican City… and it moved me. This morning, I woke up to the rebroadcast of some churches beautiful Christmas Eve. Service… and it moved me.

For some reason, Christmas this year feels like it’s happening for the very first time.

My Christmas Morning Prayer For You!

“Dear God, I pray for all my friends this Christmas morning… that you would hallow their homes and hallow their hearts… and that the ground they are sitting on would become holy ground… just like the ground you hallowed while speaking with Moses at the burning bush… and just like you hallowed the ground of that humble stable in the lowly village of Bethlehem!

I pray this December 25th would be for them, not just another Christmas of exchanging gifts and feasting with family… but that you would visit each of them as IMMANUEL… that YOU WOULD COME TO THEM just as you CAME INTO THE EARTH that first Christmas morning!

Good Father, bless my family and friends with a reality of your NEARNESS… cause every one of us to ENCOUNTER your son Jesus at various points throughout the entire day! I pray that every time our mind is at rest, that we will drift away with you… and feel your holy presence just as Mary & Joseph did 2000 years ago.

May today be the beginning of a NEW ERA for us all! May the significance of this Christmas 2009 be remembered for decades… as the time when God CAME and DWELT in our hearts in a far greater reality… and may we experience the fullness of this reality for 30 years or more! Open up a new portal of INCARNATION right now, in this generation! Give us a greater hunger for KNOWING YOU than any generation since the early church!

Christmas is here… this is it! And so I pray that we will seize the opportunity of a lifetime in the lifetime of the opportunity… and we will have the holiest, jolliest Christmas ever! In Jesus name I pray, amen!”

Here are the videos I watched… in case you want to show them to your family before prayer. I love you all more than I could ever express. Have a Merry Christmas… I will see some of you one SUNDAY MORNING @ Destiny Family Center for the greatest church service of your LIFE! God bless you all!

Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

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24
Dec

My Last Minute Shopping Idea: The Gift of Love!

Happy Christmas Eve!

1 John 4:12 No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.

Do you ever feel like you have so much love to give away, and you just can’t figure out how to communicate your love in a way that everyone feels its full extent?

I know thats a long statement to be opening a blog with. Especially on Christmas Eve! Let me try it like this: sometimes I want people to know how much I love them so badly, and I try to say and show it the very best I know how… and then at the end of the day I still feel as if NOBODY in all the world really knows HOW MUCH I LOVE.

Last night we hosted our annual church Christmas party. As my usual ‘party’ custom, I tried my very best to have short and meaningful conversations with each person. It was like all night long, there was something I wanted to say to everyone and I couldn’t seem to find the right words… or the right opportunity.

The night passed by so quickly, and when I blinked… it was over.

I often wonder… especially during the Christmas season: does anyone REALLY know how special they are to me? When those Christmas party guests laid their heads to the pillow last night, did the warmth of my short expressions of love blow over their hearts. Or we’re they left wondering, “Does he really care? Does anyone really care?”

I feel like there are so many people out there… wondering if anyone really cares about them. I feel like the whole world NEEDS love this Christmas more than any Christmas in the past 50 years of more! People seem so lonely, and sad about so many things. Maybe this is why I feel so overwhelmed this morning… because I am just one person-with a busier life most people can ever comprehend… and I feel so TINY at the enormity of this need.

This has been a very challenging year for us. We have made untold sacrifices to hold on to our dreams! I bet you have too! It’s the poorest Christmas of our lives. This will be the very first Christmas of our entire marriage when we will not be exchanging gifts. We haven’t been able to give anything to our ministry volunteers or our leadership… or our close friends. And every once in a while, it eats me alive!

No love doesn’t cost a thing… but it does require time. Love requires FOCUSED TIME… something so few of us have in times like these when we are working so hard to save our families, and churches, and companies, and everything else!

I guess my Christmas Eve message to you is this: There is no better time of the year than Christmas to offer the GIFT OF LOVE. No matter your current financial position… PAUSE everything today and tomorrow-as much as possible… FOCUS and LOVE the best you know how-the best you are able.

Love is the still greatest GIFT! So if you are looking for a last minute gift idea, this is it! You wont have to spend all day in long lines and backed up traffic. Give what you already have… the BEST YOU HAVE… give LOVE!

For me, the office is closed today and I’m not planning to write all that much. When my family wakes, I want to express my love to them more than ever before… I want them to know how special they are to me… that I love them and cherish them more than anything else in all the world!

1 John 4:12 No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.

I hope todays blog gives you some much needed last minute Christmas FOCUS! I hope it keeps you from getting depressed about some of the MINOR aspects of Christmas. I pray you all a Christmas of LOVE… more LOVE than you’ve EVER SHARED IN ALL YOUR LIVES! And that will make for the holiest-jolliest Christmas ever!

I love you all!

Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

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23
Dec

Coree Spent Last Night in His Igloo! lol

Update: <Here’s the video LINK!>

Happy Wednesday!

Proverbs 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings JOY to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.

Yesterday, my son Coree Balsamo and his friend Blake Fitzgerald built a massive Igloo! (photos) Coree’s excitement was the greatest Christmas gift a son could give his father 3 days before Christmas! At 18, he cherishes the SIMPLE things in life more than ANY person I’ve ever met! This is Coree @ his BEST! It has to be some kind of GIFT from God!

Are you ready for the really big news in this story?? Ok, so Coree and Blake SPENT THE NIGHT IN THE IGLOO! No, I am not kidding or lying you guys! lol

Coree told me last night, “Dad… I bet me and Blake will be the very first people in the history of Virginia to EVER sleep in an igloo! No wait, maybe even on the whole east coast!” I haven’t seen him this excited in a very long time… it was SO EMPOWERING!

Here’s my text conversation with Coree from last night and this morning:

  • 11:33pm (Coree writing from inside the Igloo) Dad, tomorrow we have to make an igloo at our house and sleep in it! You would be having so much fun!
  • 12:25pm (Coree) We made a video!
  • 6:54am (I wrote) Are you guys still alive?
  • 6:56am (Coree) Yeap!
  • 6:57am (I wrote) In the Igloo??
  • 6:59am (Coree) Sure am
  • 7:01am (I wrote) Hahaha!!!! Freezing?!!!
  • 7:03am (Coree) No. I slept in shorts and short sleeves
  • 7:05am (I wrote) I’m blogging about you guys right now. Any words for my world wide blog tribe?
  • 7:07am (Coree) Eskimos would be happier in California! lol
  • 7:08am (I wrote) What!! lol
  • 7:08am (I wrote) Ok, Ill let u go. This is one of the coolest things ever!
  • 7:10am (Coree) I know lol. In an Igloo the night and day look the same for some reason. We have a video for you!
  • 7:12am (I wrote) Really?!
  • 7:13am (Coree) For the most part yeah
  • 7:14am (I wrote) Did you ever feel the threat of lurking polar bears!!
  • 7:16am (Coree) No but Blake has geese and they dont sleep
  • 7:18am (I wrote) You mean POLAR GEESE!! Everything is POLAR when you’re living in an igloo!
  • 7:18am (Coree) Haha
  • 7:19am (I wrote) Are you gonna post the video on your YouTube?
  • 7:20am (Coree) Yeah.
  • 7:22am (I wrote) Wow its getting light!!!
  • 7:22am (Coree) Yeah we just looked outside
  • 7:23am (I wrote) Let me know when you get the video posted and I’ll put it on my blog!
  • 7:24am (Coree) Okay. Ill put it on sometime today
  • 7:24am (I wrote) Cya later love you! Tell Blake hi!
  • 7:25am (Coree) k. Love you too

Isn’t this hilarious! Keep checking back from time to time throughout the day… and just as soon as Coree gets the video footage uploaded, I will add it to this blog!

<Here’s the video LINK!>

Another day in the life of the Balsamo’s! Life is really good for us this Christmas! We are SO RICH everywhere it really counts!

I hope this story give everyone a great big blast of Christmas Cheer… I hope it gives you a really good laugh, or at least a nice big smile! Maybe it will help you recognize all those inexpensive opportunities for FUN waiting to be had in your own world this Christmas! Be creative, enjoy your great circle of family and friends! Do something you’ve never done before… be WILD and ENERGETIC all the way through the New Year!

Thanks for loving my daily blog! Thanks for all your BEAUTIFUL COMMENTS! I pray for you guys every single morning… believing you often feel the difference! You guys add so much value to my life! I love you all!

Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

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22
Dec

Give Yourself the Gift of Blessing Someone Else!

Happy Tuesday!

Three days to Christmas. Everybody doing ok? Are you sure? I really care and I’m really praying for you this morning! When I wrote yesterdays blog, I had no idea how much of a RIGHT NOW message it would turn out to be! All day long, I kept getting all of these bizarre discouraging thoughts… and instead of letting them dominate my world, I went back to, ‘Urgent Vision: 4 More Days 2 a Perfect Christmas!‘ The blog really helped… so thank you God!

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Give YOURSELF the Gift of Blessing Someone Else!

Acts 20:35 And I have been a constant example of how you can help those in need by working hard. You should remember the words of the Lord Jesus: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Last night, we held a silent auction for a local family that recently lost their house in a fire. Felt good being a small part of that charitable event. I pray God takes our expression of love and mixes it with a hundred more just like it, and blesses that family with a Merry Christmas.

It’s amazing how much better we feel about our own lives EVERY time we do something GOOD for someone else!

Yesterday, my Redneck Chef (Kevin Myers) dropped off a Christmas basket with homemade jellies (blueberry, peach, and candy apple) and bread. He’s such a kind man! When I walked out to his truck to thank his wife, I found she had just gotten back from her kidney dialysis treatment… and here they were dropping off a Christmas gift to their Pastor! I hope Kevin & Pam know how much that WARMED my heart!

It’s amazing how much better we feel about our own lives EVERY time we do something GOOD for someone else!

Tonight, we host our third and final DFC leadership Christmas party here at the Balsamo residence. I actually COOKED for this one! Made a Peanut Butter Magic Bar Dessert all by myself! This is the very first thing I have ever cooked by following a recipe in my entire life! It felt good making something delicious for my dear friends! Those magic bars are cooked with LOVE!

It’s amazing how much better we feel about our own lives EVERY time we do something GOOD for someone else!

You still have three days left to do something GOOD for some special person in your circle.

Think about this ALL DAY LONG today… look around… who’s hurting? who’s lonely? who’s had the roughest year anyone can imagine? who’s got it so much worse than you do? Reach out and WATCH how much CHEER rushed back into your own HEART! There is someone in EVERY circle waiting to BLESS YOU as YOU REACH OUT and BLESS THEM.

This Christmas, give YOURSELF the gift of blessing someone else!

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Tomorrow night is the annual Destiny Family Center Christmas party! Everyone is supposed to bring something yummy and a $5 gift for the gift exchange… and we’ll be having all kind of fun together!

I love you all… praying for you so much this morning… keep your focus on the right things all day long!

Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

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